Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such jokes did not have to be very funny to evoke bitter laughter from Turks in Istanbul last week. The government monopoly had just raised its prices on state-produced cigarettes, liquor, matches and tea. Premier "Adrian" 'Menderes, who cannot take it when newspapers dish it out. was also proving thin-skinned about satiric songs and nightclub jokes...
Last week, on orders from his superiors, Istanbul's police boss summoned the city's top comedians, songwriters, cabaret and theater owners into his office to lay down the law. Citing a police regulation forbidding public utterances "prejudicial to public morale and to the security and policy of the government," the director announced that any theater or nightclub that permits jokes about the high cost of Menderes would be closed for three months...
Ever since Dictator Mustafa Kemal Ataturk overturned and reformed the Islamic rigidities of the Ottoman Empire in 1924, Turkish women by the thousands have come out from behind the veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small voice from the past. Lawyer Osman Nuri Lermioglu, a Democratic Deputy from Trabzon on the Black Sea, presented Parliament with a draft bill that would allow a Turk legally to have two wives, but only if the first wife were ill or sterile. To prove that he was no Terrible...
Indispensable Man. In the midst of such predatory baying and growling. King Hussein went blithely ahead with his plans to fly off in his own de Havilland Dove via Kuwait. Teheran and Istanbul to Rome, where he will pick up a car to drive to Switzerland. His brother. Crown Prince Mohammed, flew to Switzerland from Amman two weeks ago; his mother, daughter and sister and other brother are already there-leaving not one member of his immediate family in Jordan, and all affairs of his kingdom in the hands of a regency council of honorable nonentities...
Bench Mark. In Istanbul, Judge Tarik Onan disqualified himself from hearing the case of Pickpocket Hikmet Kaya because it was the judge's pocket that Kaya had picked...